The Research Grants Council (RGC) has announced the results of the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2024/25.
Congratulations to Prof. Jiguang WANG, Padma Harilela Associate Professor of Life Science (Division of Life Science (LIFS) and Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (CBE)) for being a recipient of the Collaborative Research Project Grant (CRPG) under the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2024/25.
Led by Prof. WANG, with HKUST co-investigators Prof. Shuhuai YAO (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and CBE), Prof. Kai LIU (LIFS and CBE), and Prof. Can YANG (Department of Mathematics (MATH)), their project titled ” Characterization and Molecular Mechanisms of IDH Mutant Mesenchymal Glioma: Implications for Diagnosis and Targeted Therapies”, has received HKD 6 million from RGC. The project will run from 30 June 2025 to 29 June 2028, marking a significant step forward in glioma research.
The CRF supports multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary projects in order to encourage more research groups to engage in innovative and high-quality cross-disciplinary / cross-institutional collaborations.
